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Issue 41

The North Seas Grid should be one of the building blocks of the Energy Union, companies and campaigners have told EU energy ministers, as momentum builds behind the project connecting offshore wind farms in ten countries.

Spain’s electricity reform cut support to renewables producers by around 30% last year while other players in the electricity system emerged relatively unscathed, new data shows.

Renewables producers received around €5.24bn in 2014, according to data published last week by the Spanish competition commission (CNMC). This compares to the €7.5bn they would have received under the previous support regime, according to industry ministry projections.